If I had to guess (it’s been awhile since I’ve seen any of it), I’d say Something Is Out There, from 1988, starring Maryam d’Abo as the alien helping the human cop. It was originally a miniseries (and later a series), but later recut and re-released as a TV movie.
Is there a thread for a movie that scared the crap outta me when I was kid but couldn’t remember its title?
If not, if I can briefly hijack -
I think it was the second film I saw in a theatre, when I was maybe six?
My mom took me to “Light At the Edge of the World”, thinking it be would just another pirate film, this one with Kirk Douglas and Yul Brynner, so, it’s gotta be all glossy with charismatic swashbuckling, right?
Um…still have memories of a close-up of a woman getting stabbed in her bloodied chest, and buddy tied up to the ship’s masts while bad guy Yul - sitting leisurely (and lol chomping on an apple, in reference to another recent thread) - shreds buddy’s chest to bits via a long pole with sharp hooks on the end. And there’s someone else who had to hold his breath, floating in the water of a wrecked, ransacked boat, and pretend he was dead as marauding pirates went around making sure everyone was dead. For years afterwards whenever I was underwater I’d think about the fake drowner, hoping I looked dead.
Saw it when it first came out in '71 and it was maybe ten years ago that I finally tracked down its title.
I doubt that anything definitive can be had unless I screen through each suggestion, because I only remember the genre-hook:
Mid 60’s: biker gang California-ish, terrorizes helpless white middle class family with kids in convertible–all I remember are the scenes on the highway. Scared the crap out of me.
Man, there were a lot of those.
Maybe, “Hell’s Angels on Wheels”?
This thread has been around for a while. (Great idea for a thread, btw, Zeldar! I had been thinking of posting such a thread myself.)
I had one that had been shown to me twice, the first time in kindergarten. I was like 4. They introduced it as an “English film.” I didn’t grasp at first that English meant a whole other country. I only knew it as the language we spoke. When the film ran, I got really puzzled… because it was almost impossible for little me who’d never traveled farther than Ontario to understand the accents… what did English really *mean *if I couldn’t understand them speaking English? 
So that was the beginning of my understanding of the big wide world of humans, really. I could name countries on the map, but hadn’t had any inkling how different people could be. Even English speakers. :smack:
But then I found out on my own what movie I had been thinking of: The Salvage Gang. Turns out it had been made in 1958, the year before I was born, and was remarkably progressive for its era: the casting had black and white, girls as well as boys, all equal as protagonists. Pleasant surprise. So I just had to include a shoutout for the Salvage Gang. Now, then,
In 4th grade in 1968 the nun showed us an anti-racism movie. Started with a redneck father and son driving on a remote country road down South. Their pickup truck breaks down. The dad has no choice but to walk all day long to the nearest mechanic, then wait until morning for the shop to open. The kid can’t walk so far, so the dad asks the nearest residents if sonny can crash with them for the night.
The family was Black.
Dad don’t like it but he leaves junior there and walks. The white kid makes friends with the black kid his age and sits down to dinner with them and everybody has a great time. Except they’re worried their farm hasn’t gotten enough rain. Next thing you know the clouds burst and everybody runs out into the cornfield, whooping, dancing, and jubilating, and race problems seem a million miles away.
Then Pops comes back in the repaired pickup and offers the folks money, but they won’t take it and they tell him he has a fine boy there. As they’re driving away, the dad turns to the boy and asks, “So how was it in that nigger house?” The movie ends there and leaves you just marinating in that last line…
What movie was that?
In the ~1960’s short film I’m trying to find the name of (and a source) involves a young boy hears less and less of the postman’s steps every morning, as the boy lay in bed, until he does not hear them at all. We learn later that the boy is withdrawing into a mental illness, and the snow muffling the sound is just imagined by the boy. At the end, a doctor is consulting with a concerned parent over the diminishing condition of the boy.
Horror movie, seen I believe in the late 70s. One scene scared the crap out of me as a kid.
Some teens went into a haunted house and got separated. Later, found one of their number, now totally insane, with scratches all over him, wandering around in a little circle in a dark room and staring up at an empty light socket.
Anyone know this movie?
Did “The Beach Girls” have a subplot where pot smugglers had to ditch their cargo at sea resulting in bales of the stuff washing up on the beach in question? If so, I saw that one, if not what was that movie?
Silent Snow, Secret Snow?
Also made into an episode of the TV show, Night Gallery, with Orson Welles narrating, so you may be remembering that version.
Yup. “Beach Girls.”
The plot description here sounds right Silent Snow, Secret Snow - Wikipedia
Miss Mapp, Yes, thank you, that’s the film, Slient Snow, Secret Snow! And you gave me two version!
Thanks.
I’ve got one, been bothering me for years and years. It was a cartoon from i’d say the mid 90’s. The only bit I remember from it was a part of an episode. The two people were in an underwater base and i believe it was flooding. The boy was african-american and used a submarine. The main guy was a white guy who when he was in water, transformed in to something akin to Venom from Spiderman. I remember the guy putting the kid in to the submarine to protect him and the water rising while the guy slowly transformed, i believe he was injured. I at first thought it was Mako from tigersharks but its not quite him because the animation was more advanced than tigersharks, he didnt need the ‘fish tank’ to transform and he looks different like i said. Any help would be greatly appreciated as it’s driving me insane 
Hello all,
I have a very vague memory of a film I watched when I was a kid, probably 5 or 6 years old.
It’s an old movie, comedy, black and white. I don’t remember much, but the protagonist was with maybe a psychiatrist? or a friend where the latter takes him back to some stages/memories of his life and made him relive the experience to get some answers or solve something-probably through hypnosis. I remember the protagonist acting like a baby in a man’s body when the “psychiatrist” took him back to his early childhood.
Also, there was a scene “maybe” that has lots of foam in a room/hall and everybody slipped and fell or something like that. I’m also pretty sure that the hero had a girl whom he liked. Dunno if she’s a girlfriend or a fiancé or anything else.
I know I don’t remember most of the details, but this is what I got :smack:
Thanks in advance.
All I remember it was a boy & girl about 12 and they were in a row boat on a small lake and the weather was great , but what was so memorable was the great piano music while the camera was filming them from about 50 feet away
Hi –
I’ve been searching for 2 films I saw on TV about 25 years ago. These were definitely 1960s/70s films, though.
- Desert chase…
Two men–one a sheriff, one a bandit being chased–wind up in a desert and as the elements start wearing the sheriff down, the bandit comes to his rescue. When he recovers, the chase begins again, and then the opposite takes place where the sheriff helps the ailing bandit, and so it goes. It was beautifully filmed, incredibly told with little dialogue, and I’ve not been able to find it since.
- Paul Newman (and Raquel Welch?) types in Mexican comedy…
Paul Newman gets off a train and finds himself with a Mexican family only to find that there is a stunningly beautiful young woman in the household who is a nymphomaniac. I think they marry, and once consummated–again and again and again–he can’t take anymore and gets out of Dodge. It ends ok, though, since she goes off with a team of acrobats who might actually possibly be able to satisfy her passions.
Either sound familiar? Or did I dream them? 
I don’t know if its what you saw, but this happens in an episode of The Prisoner.
Twice forgotten by me, since I think I’ve asked about this on the Dope and got an answer. Searching has not found a thread with my description, though.
This was almost like a James Bond incident. A guy, main protagonist, is put through a series of “death rooms”, basically. The clearest memory is that he is in a room with candles. However, when you blow out the candles, they explode. He gets out of this one by putting all the candles by the locked door and using bellows to blow out a lot of them together, which causes an explosion that breaks the door down.
He is communicated with by the villain though, I think, speakers(possible a tv screen, too).
Was this an episode of the Prisoner or a movie I have forgotten? I saw it on TV in the late 80’s.
**Gambling/sports Asian movie…
**
I cannot recall specific names of characters. But the movie has to do with Hong Kong gambling and some soccer match between Germany and Brazil - the 2002 World Cup.
There is a gambling tournament where the entry fee is $1 million and the prize for the winner is $1 billion. The first round of the tournament is baccarat, where only one out of eight gamblers will advance.
At some point, gambling on the 2002 World Cup got involved in the plot. One of the movie’s characters placed a $45 million bet on Germany beating Brazil. During the game, someone showed the villains video footage of Ronaldo, the Brazilian striker, curling up in the locker room in apparent pain, and was told that Ronaldo was cramping and that he had been poisoned. This causes the villains to lose confidence in Brazil winning the game. The $45 million bet is declared to be withdrawn.
But then someone emerges wearing a Brazilian jersey - a man resembling Ronaldo - and it is gleefully proclaimed that he was faking the video, pretending to be “the cramping Ronaldo” - in order to fool the bad guys. The bad-guy boss, miffed now, still declares that the good guys have still lost their $45 million bet on Germany, but one of his minions reminds the bad boss that he had just rescinded that very bet. The movie’s hero then reveals that he himself is also wearing a Brazil football jersey underneath.
The hero’s girlfriend, awed, says that she will never object to the hero gambling again, but the hero, while thanking her for that, says that he doesn’t think he will continue his gambling in the future.